Mr. Georgia Basketball

Each year the Mr. Georgia Basketball award is given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in the U.S. state of Georgia. The award winner is selected by members of the Atlanta Tip Off Club.[1]

Award winners
Year Player High School College NBA/ABA draft
2020 Walker Kessler Woodward Academy North Carolina
2019 Sharife Cooper McEachern Auburn
2018 Ashton Hagans Newton Kentucky
2017 Chuma Okeke Westlake Auburn 2019 NBA draft: 1st Round, 16th overall by the Orlando Magic
2016 Alterique Gilbert Miller Grove Connecticut
2015 Jaylen Brown Wheeler California 2016 NBA draft: 1st Round, 3rd overall by the Boston Celtics
2014 JaKeenan Gant Effingham County Missouri
2013 Brannen Greene Tift County Kansas
2012 Tony Parker Miller Grove High School UCLA
2011 Shannon Scott Milton High School Ohio State
2010 Marcus Thornton Westlake Georgia
2009 Derrick Favors South Atlanta Georgia Tech 2010 NBA draft: 1st Round, 3rd overall by the New Jersey Nets
2008 Al-Farouq Aminu Norcross Wake Forest 2010 NBA Draft: 1st Round, 8th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers
2007 Gani Lawal Norcross Georgia Tech 2010 NBA Draft: 2nd Round, 46th overall by the Phoenix Suns
2006 Javaris Crittenton Southwest Atlanta Christian Georgia Tech 2007 NBA draft: 1st Round, 19th overall by the Los Angeles Lakers
2005 Louis Williams South Gwinnett none 2005 NBA draft: 2nd Round, 45th overall by the Philadelphia 76ers
2004 Dwight Howard Southwest Atlanta Christian none 2004 NBA draft: 1st Round, 1st overall by the Orlando Magic
2003 Vincent Banks South Atlanta Miami, Cincinnati, Georgia Perimeter College, Garden City Community College
2002 Wayne Arnold Berkmar Georgia, Tennessee State
2001 Kwame Brown Glynn Academy none 2001 NBA draft: 1st Round, 1st overall by the Washington Wizards
2000 A. J. Moye Westlake Indiana
1999 Donnell Harvey Randolph-Clay Florida 2000 NBA draft: 1st Round, 22nd overall by the New York Knicks
1998 Tony Akins Berkmar Georgia Tech
1997 Dion Glover Cedar Grove Georgia Tech 1999 NBA draft: 1st Round, 20th overall by the Atlanta Hawks
1996 Pablo Machado Tift County Georgia Tech, Loyola
1995 Shareef Abdur-Rahim Wheeler California 1996 NBA draft: 1st Round, 3rd overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies
1994 Shareef Abdur-Rahim Wheeler California 1996 NBA Draft: 1st Round, 3rd overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies
1993 Matt Harpring Marist Georgia Tech 1998 NBA draft: 1st Round, 15th overall by the Orlando Magic
1992 Jeff Sheppard McIntosh Kentucky
1991 Dontonio Wingfield Westover Cincinnati 1994 NBA draft: 2nd Round, 37th overall by the Seattle SuperSonics
1990 James Forrest Southside Georgia Tech
1989 James Forrest Southside Georgia Tech
1988 Darrin Hancock Griffin Garden City Community College, Kansas 1994 NBA Draft: 2nd Round, 11th overall by the Charlotte Hornets
1987 Ivano Newbill Southwest Macon Georgia Tech
1986 Darrin Hancock Griffin Garden City Community College, Kansas 1994 NBA Draft: 2nd Round, 11th overall by the Charlotte Hornets
1985 Eric Manuel Southwest Macon Kentucky
1984 Steve Grayer Southwest Macon Wichita State
1983 Chris Morris Douglass Auburn 1988 NBA draft: 1st Round, 4th overall by the New Jersey Nets
1983 Kenny Walker Crawford County Kentucky 1986 NBA draft: 1st Round, 5th overall by the New York Knicks

See also

Miss Georgia Basketball

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-11. Retrieved 2010-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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